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Bbb, the build back better act. in some sense, where do democrats go? there are some other legislation they can go to, but build back better, the presidents top priority is in huge trouble, you know. it helped stall it last month. todays report not going to help it. in some ways, theyve got to go somewhere and this is something the base has been really affect on. so, you know, in some ways it makes political sense. but if you come up with a loss here, how does that help you? i dont see. it is ne...

Doing something. to do that would mean to lose face, and so when you look at this troubling scenario, the reason youve seen so much noise from the white house on this is because the trajectory is putin seems to be, you know, taking the next step. he invaded georgia in 08, he invaded ukraine in 14. this could be the next step of him further encroaching into a neighboring state. i think that the outcome that forestalls that in their view, in the white houses view is both laying down that this coul...

>> your call for the sanctions, the strict sanctions to be imposed on russia now, it is not the first time a republican has come on the show and said that. the counterargument is putin needs to be given an off ramp out of this conflict and if those sanctions are imposed now before he invades it would be needlessly provocative and push him to invade. what do you make of that argument? >> well, jake, that argument, i would say that by the time russia invades, it is going to be shock and awe and ma...

Ukraine in right now. so theres room to work if he wants to do that. but i think, as usual, hes going to -- probably shouldnt go any further. but i think it will hurt him badly. >> sounds like you are offering some way out here. off ramp and it sounds like what it is, is at least an informal assurance that nato is not going to take in ukraine any time in the next few decades. and it sounds like youre saying we would never put nuclear weapons there. he also wants us to move all of our nuclear w...

Than deal with the consequences of reshape the geopolitical landscape. >> im not an expert but i couldnt agree more in that respect. massive landward incursion on the european continent is, you know, bad. with horrible historical ant seedants. whats the diplomatic off ramp? look, russias a nuclear power. russia is not and nato is not going to send ground troops to eastern ukraine to fight russian soldiers. blinken is in the region seeking a diplomatic off ramp. what is the off ramp? >> its not t...

Could come in with field hospitals to offer additional capacity? >> we have deployed a number of resources from -- to surge resources over the last several months. we will continue to do that, and we are working with local health authorities, state leaders, local leaders, to determine where there are the greatest needs. but we have deployed a range of resources, many of them through fema, to ensure that communities have higher surges or needs in different ways i should say, have resources from t...

The past. i just authorized myself the provision of american military equipment with third countries estonia, latvia and lithuania, to get to ukraine. we are in intense regular constant communication, consultation with allies and partners to make it very clear these massive consequences will follow. basically at this point, dana, the choice is vladimir putins. the paths are clear. diplomacy, dialogue, seeing if we can build collective security in a way that is good for everyone is clearly the pr...

Off-ramp to the current crisis. >> fred, you are there in mosby. are there signs from russia that an invasion of ukraine may be imminent? >> certainly there arent any signs of de-escalation. its interesting. u.s. intel apparently pointed out the pactfact that the russi are thinning out the personnel in the embassy and kiev and other consulates across ukraine and that apparently is ominous sign to u.s. intel, that something could be up. the russians have tdenied that report. they say their consul...

So even though the diplomatic process lives on and i think its significant though those talks in geneva between secretary of state anthony blinken and his russian counterpart, sergey lavrov, did not result in a dead end, but rather, what blinken called, quote, a clearer path ahead, that is significant. that should not be downplayed. but what ultimately that clearer path looks like in terms of a potential resolution is really, i would say, very unclear at this stage. its hard to imagine how presi...

Control agreements and agreements to reduce forces both in the sort of eastern part of -- the western part of russia and the eastern part of europe when nato is and where putin says he has concerns. but thats a minimalist part of the sort of maximalist demands that nato, you know, deny ukraine membership and also go back to 1997 levels. so, the off-ramp just doesnt seem to be a particularly likely off-ramp at the moment. how this -- the military support thats being given to ukraine at the moment...